Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Best Quotes about Wealth

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Wilde, Oscar

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa

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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

25.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

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The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.

Maus, Cynthia Pearl

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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal